Park Hills, KY – Catholic Student Says He Didn’t Disrespect Native American

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    In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image, Nick Sandmann wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. (AP)Park Hills, KY – A Catholic high school student whose close encounter with a Native American activist and a black religious sect was captured on video in Washington, D.C. says he has nothing to apologize for.

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    Nick Sandmann told NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday that he had every right to be there, as did the others who gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He said he wasn’t disrespectful and was trying to stay calm under the circumstances.

    Videos posted of Sandmann and his classmates wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and facing off against Omaha Nation elder Nathan Phillips have sparked widespread criticism. But the various sides say they’ve been misunderstood and that snippets of video were taken out of context.

    Many saw the white teenagers, who had traveled to Washington for an anti-abortion rally, appearing to mock the Native Americans. Others interpreted Phillips’ drumming and singing as a hostile act. Phillips has since explained that he was trying to intervene between the boys and a group of black street preachers who were shouting racist insults at both the Native Americans and the white kids.

    Sandmann said he definitely felt threatened by the black men, who were calling them things like “incest kids” and “bigots.”

    “In hindsight, I wish we’d just found another spot to wait for our buses, but at the time, being positive seemed better than letting them slander us with all of these things.”

    Sandmann said he isn’t racist and for that matter, neither are his classmates.

    “We’re a Catholic school and it’s not tolerated. They don’t tolerate racism, and none of my classmates are racist people.”

    Both Sandmann and Phillips have since said they were trying to keep the peace in a volatile situation. Phillips has since offered to visit the school and lead a dialogue about cultural understanding. Sandmann said he’d like to speak with him as well.

    “I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips. I respect him. I’d like to talk to him. In hindsight, I wish we could’ve walked away and avoided the whole thing, but I can’t say that I’m sorry for listening to him and standing there.”

    The boys’ school reopened Wednesday under extra security measures after officials closed the campus Tuesday as a precaution.

    A letter to parents sent by school officials said that if they don’t feel comfortable sending their sons back to class, they will “understand this viewpoint during this difficult time period.”


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    hashomer
    hashomer
    5 years ago

    So five black kult guys intimidated several busloads of white cat’lick HS boors, then the MAGAs surrounded a handful of American Indian Elders, howling and laughing at them, but that’s not disrespectful, huh? And taken out of context? That’s another lame racist excuse. Vietnam Vet Elder Nate Phillips will meet the kid and teach him something…

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    “Didn’t disrespect” Just look at the picture. All of them. “we are a Catholic school” it sure sounds like this is what they teach them jm”s.

    BH-Baby
    BH-Baby
    5 years ago

    “Sandmann said he isn’t racist and for that matter, neither are his classmates.”

    Let’s chop down that alibi.

    Indigenous Native Americans have said for decades that a specific action was demeaning and racist.

    Anybody who saw saw the incident, in person or tape, saw this action repeatedly.

    The students were bringing their arm downward as if wielding an axe while belting out a crude version of traditional Native American songs.

    The Tomahawk Chop.

    “Justice is what I seek, kemosabe.”
    — Tonto. An honorable Injun, for a redskin.

    (Hope that I didn’t insult anyone. My racist phrases were only to highlight some of our culture’s shortcomings.)

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    Another fake news story from the liberal msm. This way they don’t have to cover the buzzfeed fake news story

    5 years ago

    The Catholic students are farbisen anti-semites, who would not hesitate to harass frum Yidden, walking on Shabbos, or any other time. I know of an incident in my community, when the local high school basketball team (of which there were a number of Jewish players), were playing a Catholic high school. During the game, the Catholic students started throwing pennies at the team with the Jewish players. Such conduct doesn’t start in a vacuum, as it is learned at home, and tolerated. The two respective principals claimed that they were “shocked”, but in the end, I doubt if anything was accomplished. The church has indoctrinated its members for thousands of years, with various anti-semitic stereotypes. Therefore, I am not surprised at those skutsim, harassing the American Native American Indian.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    5 years ago

    KKK Grand Wizzard trumpf started this anti-Indian hatred again by calling US Senator Elizabeth Warren ‘pocahontas’ as a derisive, insulting name. So you know where it began. In WH w racist bewigged klan leader.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    #7 , They dropped that in about 1965.

    5 years ago

    To Paulin Saudi-Don’t be so naive; do you really think that the Catholic church’s stating that we didn’t kill J.C., is really going to change the attitudes of billions of their flock, over a simple proclamation? How many times have I heard “You don’t celebrate Christmas, or you don’t have a Christmas tree”, by ostensibly educated people!